"The art of life is the art of avoiding pain; and he is the best pilot, who steers clearest of the rocks and shoals with which it is beset." (Thomas Jefferson)

November 28, 2004

"It is easy in the world to live after the world's opinion, it is easy in solitude to live after your own, but the great man is he who in the midst of the crowd keeps with perfect sweetness the independence of solitude." (Ralph Waldo Emerson)

November 23, 2004

"If clouds are full of water, they pour rain upon the earth. Whether a tree falls to the South or to the North, in the place where it falls, there will it lie. Whoever watches the wind will not plant; whoever looks at the clouds will not reap." (Bible, Ecclesiastes 11)

November 18, 2004

"If you've been dating a man for four months and you haven't met any of his friends, you are not his girlfriend." (Chris Rock)

"All music must obey me. All pain must obey me." (Russell Jones, (also known as Ol' Dirty Bastard))

"I always been Jesus. I don't know what the big secret's been all these years." (Russell Jones, (also known as Ol' Dirty Bastard))

November 12, 2004

"Predictions of the future are never anything but projections of present automatic processes and procedures." (Hannah Arendt, German political theorist, 1906 - 1975)

"Love, by its very nature, is unworldly, and it is for this reason that it is not only apolitical but anti-political, perhaps the most powerful of all anti-political human forces." (Hannah Arendt, German political theorist, 1906 - 1975, from The Human Condition)

November 8, 2004

"Sound health is the greatest of gifts; contentedness, the greatest of riches; trust, the greatest of qualities." (The Buddha)

November 4, 2004

"One cannot be arraigned for declaring a war, which every ruler has to do once in a while, but only for running a war badly." (Bertolt Brecht, The Caucasian Chalk Circle)